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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5337859" data-attributes="member: 32740">One of my favorite "Aw, come ON...!" moments of all time from the movies was in Starship Troopers.  Denise Richards gets a bugs leg shoved through her shoulder, the tip is sticking 3 feet out in front of her and she gets tossed off to the side.  5 minutes later, after not even a whiff of Neosporin she's not only NOT BLEEDING TO DEATH in utter agony, but walking out of the cave, smiling, speaking casually, and putting her arms around her friends, and forgetting entirely that under her blood soaked uniform she's got a gaping 4" hole in her upper torso.  I LOVE that movie.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Other fun stuff:Parking right in front of the front door of ANYTHING, ANYWHERE.  Certainly isn't going to happen in even a minor metropolitan area in the real world.  In the movies and on TV parking lots are things you drive past to get to the front door, not something anyone actually USES. Driving into a chainlink fence gate and the padlock and chain just pop and the gates fly open.  Toll booths, parking attendant booths EXPLODE into fine splinters when hit by a car, with nary a scratch on the auto. Plate glass windows all shatter into safe little cubic bits instead of large, razor sheets that fall into peoples heads, shoulders and legs severing arteries. Computer use/hacking.  Yeah.  Any rube off the street can sit down at an unfamiliar computer or terminal and start executing commands that will provide them with the name, address, account information or control of some specific, key, deep-level piece of equipment.  Attaching a widget to ONE surveillance camera gets you access to the entire video surveillance system.  All real hackers use macs. Any procedure ANY CSI does on ANY version of CSI MIGHT be possible, but only after weeks or months.  No police department anywhere IN THE WORLD has the kind of clean, modern offices, top-end computer systems, software and display capabilities you see on TV.  50% of all server rooms in the world are overheated, dust-laden, converted broom closets with a spagetti-mass of ethernet cables, a box of sales reciepts from 1997, three 10-year old dead CRT monitors and 2 mummified roaches. One cannot crawl across the top of most suspended ceiling tiles.  The tiles themselves are generally made of crumbly, compressed paper material you can cut with a butter knife, and the aluminum frames they sit in are hardly thicker than a soda can lid and suspended from above by wires.  Most tiles are also liberally sprinkled with rat turds and an eighth inch of dust. Corpses not being acted upon by significant preservative forces will NOT look like an actress with too much pale makeup - in rapid order they bloat, and then are infested with... consumers. If your BMW is stolen, when you report it you'll be lucky if an officer arrives within several hours to take the report.  Then you file a claim with your insurance company and get a new car because your old one is now PARTS in a chop shop very far away.  If your car IS found I'm pretty sure they just return it to you and they go back to working domestic abuse calls.  They don't dust it for prints, run it through AFIS, or put out an APB on the thief. Sometimes I wonder if the people who make TV shows and movies set in LA have ever even SEEN LA, much less spent enough time here to learn what its like to live here if you're NOT a success in show biz.</blockquote>

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